Edward Burton articles - 20 total
From println!() Disasters to Production. Building MCP Servers in Rust
I shipped my first MCP server on a Friday. It worked perfectly in my tests. Then Claude Code started...
The Growth Chart Nobody Shows You
Everyone loves hockey-stick growth charts. Founders put them in pitch decks. VCs tweet them. Product...
I Built the Wrong Thing Three Times Before Learning Claude Code's Extensibility Triangle
You are staring at a Claude Code session, and you need it to do something it does not do out of the...
5 Claude Code Hooks I Actually Use Every Day
I spent three months running Claude Code without hooks. Every commit, I'd manually check for secrets....
Are You a Luddite
Prelude Let's get the unpleasantness out of the way immediately. There is a word currently...
Your Ego Is The Real AI Bottleneck
Prelude The sky is falling. Or so my LinkedIn feed tells me. Every day brings a new...
Your React Dashboard is Low-Bandwidth for LLMs
This article was originally published at tyingshoelaces.com What the Cursor CMS migration...
Beyond the Screen: Why LLMs Don't Need Browsers (And Why We Think They Do)
published: true description: We are forcing LLMs to interact with the web via screenshots and DOMs....
I Stopped Calling LLMs "Stochastic Parrots" After This Debugging Session
What physics tells us about how language models actually work I had a mask on my face. For...
The Vibe Coding Delusion
I recently sat in a code review that terrified me. A junior engineer—bright, enthusiastic,...
Python is for playtime; Rust is for runtime
I have spent the last decade creating complexity. We all have. We convinced ourselves that to put a...
I Spent 18 Months Writing AI Glue Code. Never Again.
I have a confession to make. For the last year and a half, I haven't been building "Cutting Edge AI...
Stop Building God Agents
We are building AI systems wrong. Not slightly wrong. Fundamentally, structurally, catastrophically...
Dumb superintelligence
Everyone in artificial intelligence is looking at the same thing, and most of us are lying to...
The Scaling Arms Race Is Over - The Application Age Has Begun
For the past several years, the artificial intelligence landscape has sold a story of a high-stakes...
The MCP Reckoning => Why the Protocol Never Worked and What Comes Next
Three years ago, I read the Steve Jobs biography. The part about the iPhone obsessed me. Not the...
A forensic analysis of the Claude Sonnet 3.5 system prompt leak
A forensic analysis of the Claude Sonnet 3.5 system prompt Originally published in the...
Building production systems using Generative AI.
Originally published on Tying Shoelaces I set out several months ago to deeply understand and...
Building a production system with Generative AI
Introduction Gen AI for data privacy I set out several months ago to deeply understand...
Ever imagined The Gladiator set in Silicon Valley?
Big tech, glorious battles and Machiavellian politics all shaken into a juicy cocktail about the...